[cmake-developers] semantics of ctest_build(APPEND)

[Brad King]

On 09/26/2016 10:07 AM, Daniel Pfeifer wrote:
> the documentation of the ctest_build command states "Append semantics
> are defined by the dashboard server in use." I think this is not
> precise enough.
> 
> The client side effect of APPEND is that CTest creates an
> Append="true" attribute in the XML. It does not append anything to the
> already existing file. The existing file is overwritten.
> 
> For append to work as expected, it is necessary to call
> ctest_submit(PARTS Build) between the ctest_build commands. This is
> not documented.

Yes.  Please add this to anywhere in the documentation you expected
to see it.

Thanks,
-Brad